Lecture Series Event

Super Futures Haunt Qollective: L'eulelogy for our super(re)latives

October 3, 2024

Super Futures Haunt Collective's performance and lecture is co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Dept of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, and curated by Roshanak Kheshti

Caring for Our Ancestors: Weaving ~ Listening ~ Writing

April 30, 2025
Caring for Our Ancestors:
Weaving ~ Listening ~ Writing Co-organized by Dr. Tanya Lukin Linklater & Dr. Beth Piatote April 28 - May 2, 2025
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)

This gathering is part of a five-year project titled “Xóxelhmetset te Syewá:l | Caring for Our Ancestors: Reconnecting Indigenous Songs with Community and Kin” led by co-investigators Dr. Dylan Robinson (University of British Columbia)...

Martha Redbone

Roots Music Singer
Martha Redbone facilitated a Songwriting Workshop offered as a collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2025.

Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and 2021 United States Artist Fellow celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music. Drawing from the folk and mountain blues sounds of her Appalachian upbringing in Kentucky and the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American roots music. Her work gives voice to social...

Sarah Biscarra Dilley

Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Educator,
Sarah Biscarra Dilley was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in January 2025, giving an Artist talk and leading a Workshop: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation.

Sarah Biscarra Dilley (b. 1986, unceded Nisenan land, unratified Treaty “J” region) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

Their practice is grounded in collaboration across experiences, communities, and place. Relating land and beings throughout...

Julia Keefe

Vocalist, Actor, Activist, and Educator
Julia Keefe gave an Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 18, 2025.

Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) is an internationally acclaimed Native American jazz vocalist, actor, activist, and educator currently based in New York City. Her professional career has spanned over 20 years and she has headlined marquee events at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., NMAI-NY, as well as opened for the likes of 20-time GRAMMY Award winner Tony Bennett and 4-time GRAMMY Award winner Esperanza Spalding. Her life’s work is the revival and honoring of the...

Conference – The Archive and Its Forms in the Americas

January 23, 2025
El archivo y sus formas en las Américas 23 y 24 de enero, 2025 Locacion: Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)

Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with the Arts Research Center

La conferencia será en español, ingles, y portugues. No habrá traducción.
The conference will be in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. There will not be interpretation.

Copatrocinadores

Organizado por Daylet Domínguez (UC Berkeley) y Adriana Amante (...

Sherwin Bitsui Lunch Poems Reading + Craft Talk

September 5, 2024

Lunch Poems + the Arts Research Center bring poet Sherwin Bitsui to campus for reading & craft talk. Codex Foundation collaborated to create a broadside of one of Bitsui's poems from Flood Song.

F2024 Artist-in-Residence Amanda Strong, with Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Fall 2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence
Amanda Strong with Visiting Artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett

October 30 at 7pm – Film Screening & Talk Back, BAMPFA (tickets here)

November 1 at 4pm – Artist Talk: Amanda Strong + Bracken Hanuse Corlett, BAMPFA (tickets here)

plus class & studio visits

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